Cherry
Description
This section is from the book "A Dictionary Of Modern Gardening", by George William Johnson, David Landreth. Also available from Amazon: The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.
Cherry
(Cerasus).
Varieties
There are eighty in the London Horticultural Society's list, of which some are quite inferior and others scarcely differ except in name. The following we extract from the Catalogue of D. Landreth & Fulton, Philadelphia:
Explanation Of Abbreviations
Colour - b black; 1 light; r red y yellow. Size - l large; M medium; s small.
Those marked * are of American origin.
NAME. | COLOUR. | FORM. | SIZE. | QLTY. | SEASON. |
Belle de Choisey .... | r | round | M | 1 | June |
*Bleeding Heart .... | b | heart | L | 1 | June |
Black Tartarian .... | b | heart | L | 1 | June |
Carnation..... | l r | round | L | 2 | July |
*Downer's Late Red | 1 r | round | L | 1 | July |
Downton ..... | l r | round | L | 1 | July |
b | round | L | 1 | June | |
Late Duke..... | r | heart | L | 1 | July |
May Duke, Early | r | heart | L | 1 | June |
Mazzard Black .... | b | round | S | 2 | July |
Morello, English .... | r | heart | L | 1 | July |
Morello, French .... | r | heart | L | 1 | July |
Morello, Plumstone | r | heart | L | 2 | July |
Morello, Kentish .... | r | heart | L | 1 | July |
*Morello, Rumsey's Late | r | heart | L | 1 | August |
Ox Heart ..... | y r | heart | L | 1 | July |
White Heart .... | y r | heart | L | 1 | July |
Yellow Spanish .... | r | heart | L | 1 | July |
The annexed drawings and descriptions of a few valuable varieties may interest some of our readers.
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